FC5, evolution on 90% CPU

taharka res00vl8 at alltel.net
Mon May 15 16:31:30 UTC 2006


Howdy,

On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 23:10 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 23:42 +0200, András Horváth wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I just upgraded from FC4 to FC5 (and upgraded) and get a strange problem:
> > 
> > When I start evolution, it begins to eat 85-90% of CPU continuously.
> > Even if there are no incoming mail to filter or other work to do. The
> > CPU temperature on my laptop is 76-78 C if evolution is running and
> > power consumption is very high.
> > 
> > I did not observe such phenomena in earlier versions.
> > 
> > What should be the problem?
> > 
> > Thank you in advance,
> ----
> turn off mail filtering in Preferences.
> 
> I have found that to be an issue included failing to kill off some spamd
> processes even if you quit evolution.

Whoa!! Thanks a billion for that tip. Unchecked junk mail filtering here
& retrieving new mail is about 100 times faster :-)) Now, I wonder what
happens to future junk mail?

> Craig

taharka

Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.




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